Mesopotamia /
Kings
The Mesopotamian kings that stand out as particularly important the development of history and civilizations, seem to overshadow all other individuals. This being a time where the ruler could control history, a period with textual evidence of varying quality and quantity, it must be taken into account that much may be legendary, that many claims of importance may be theft from other rulers and periods.This being a time when religion was intrinsic in the total world view, a king, and his queen, had their legitimacy from being descendants of the gods. The kings where, however, not gods like they could be in other cultures, like the Egyptian. There are exceptions to this, Akkadian king, Naram-Sin did claim to be a god in the 23rd century BCE.Accounts on Mesopotamian kings are generally impersonal, granting little information about the skills of each ruler in conjuction with the successes and failures of each reign.